"I Can Relate to That...": Reading and Responding in the Writing Classroom
Abstract
This kind of emotional reaction was typical of what the students wrote in response to reading about poverty and homelessness. That particular semester, I assigned readings on one particular theme-i.e., poverty and homelessness. Over the course of the first few weeks, we read about a dozen essays, then a longer nonfiction piece, Jonathan Kozol's Rachel and Her Children, and finally, a novel, Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster. I hoped the students would find the readings interesting and that, taken as a whole, they would provide a common classroom experience upon which to base our discussions. I also tried to choose material that I thought would provoke strong student reactions.
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- College Composition and Communication
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- 1993-05-01
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- 10.2307/358841
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